Cop v skateboarder

Here’s how it works these days. Someone doing something in a public setting is surreptitiously videotaped. The video is uploaded to YouTube where it is viewed by thousands, even millions. Fall out follows.

Here we have a video of a Baltimore cop taking on some skateboarders in the city’s Inner Harbor area. According to this report in today’s Baltimore Sun, the officer, Salvatore Rivieri “was suspended by the Police Department pending an internal investigation after berating, manhandling and threatening [14-year-old skateboarder Eric] Bush last summer.”